WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls It’s hot here, but across the pond, the heat is new and different for our affiliates there. One of our organizers was delayed on a train to Scotland, because the tracks were so hot, it slowed all of them down. In France, reports indicate that the country may have experienced iis …
Marble Falls June 18th is ACORN Founders Day. On the staff, you could either take your birthday or Founders Day as a holiday, if you had had to work a holiday during the year. Fifty-six years is a long time since ACORN began in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now with 300,000 members works …
Ottawa The real business of the convention is on Saturday. Members from the host city come pouring into the hall. Delegations line up and chant there way into the building. The convention t-shirts are everywhere, saying “Protect Our Homes.” The morning speakers were led by Alejandro Ruiz-Vargez, chairing her first convention, though she …